MP3 troubles

[craig d]

Well, I'm on my second 6disk MP3 head unit in my 2006 F150. The changer died on my first unit, and I still haven't gotten my disk back from that exchange. Anyway, getting past that... I'm getting into making MP3 CD's so I can consolidate several of my disk onto one big one. But I'm having two issues with that, and I would like some suggestions on what I might do. 1) When I look at the CD on my computer, all the information (Artist, song, album, etc) is displayed correctly. My truck only shows the song title, and that shows as the folder. It shows "No Artist", "No Album", "No Title" for everything else. Am I missing something here? I'm using ITunes to compile the MP3's. It displays all the tag information correctly, and if I look at the files through Explorer or anything else, it all shows correctly too. Just not on the radio. 2) Songs skip VERY badly on the truck stereo. It's random, but totally unacceptable. The CD plays fine on my computer, but random songs will skip or get stuck and go to another track in the truck stereo. Since the disk plays fine on other players, I'm inclined to think that the factory deck just doesn't handle MP3's very well. Maybe it's over sensitive. Any ideas for other things I could try? I really dread getting this unit swapped out also, but will do that if I can't figure out anything else. Thanks a bunch for any ideas. I'm about to go crazy with this! - Craig

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[lumas13]

Well, here's a bit of advice I could give you, I had the same deck but it had to go. The more Mp3' that you put on the disc the more trouble, make sure that the tracks are ripped no more than 160kbps, anything higher will cause problems in that deck, also I had problems with tracks at the end of the disc, so I would only put about 600mb of Mp3's on a disc that helped me a lot for that deck. Hope this helps